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Depicted with a full, fleshy face, his wavy hair brushed forward and pushed up at the forehead into a crest with parallel locks breaking right across his forehead and left above his eye, with long curving sideburns, the wide unarticulated eyes beneath modelled brows, his lips pressed together, the protruded chin rounded.

h. 29.2 cm

AD 59-64

Marble

Provenance

Acquired by Royal-Athena Galleries from Galerie Mythes et Legendes, Paris, 1984
Acquired by Numismatic Fine Arts from Royal-Athena Galleries, Los Angeles, 1984
Summa Galleries, Beverly Hills, mid 1980s
Ex collection of Allen E. Paulson (1922-2000) Living Trust, California
Acquired at Christie’s Antiquities Sale 2174, New York, 3rd June 2009, lot 170

Publications

L. Bernikow, "Inspired Eclectic, A Los Angeles Setting for Classical Antiquities", Architectural Digest, Amy Astley, October 1986, p. 164
Christie’s New York, Antiquities Sale, New York, 3rd June 2009, p. 83, lot 170
J. Pollini, "Roman Marble Sculpture" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 98, fig. 46
Égypte Ancienne, May/June/July 2013, no. 8, p. 69
"Dining with Socrates and Nero", Minerva: the International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology Magazine, May/June 2017, vol. 28, no. 3, p. 26, fig. 13

Exhibitions

Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011

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Roman Marble Portrait Head of the Emperor Nero

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